More on digital comics and their uses

So no sooner do I write yesterday's post, then I come across this:

Ambidextrous 284: Yes, I Hate Digital Comics

all about the economy's effect on comic sales and how publishing digitally may make it possible for some smaller publishers to survive.

I'm not really the audience for this article. In fact, I'm more of the type of comic reader the article neatly defines like so:

A significant number of people reading serialized comics are perfectly happy to keep reading the same books and characters they’ve always read month after month and year after year.

And that's basically true.

However, I suspect I'd be more likely to try something new once in a while if all it involved was going online and clicking a button (and, of course, a quick visit to Paypal) and lo and behold, something new to read! As opposed to ordering it sight unseen months ahead of time. It might be different if I had a local comic shop to browse, but I don't. But the opportunity to have an online comic shop that I could browse, that might get me to loosen my pursestrings a bit.